The Unexpected Lessons of Lingua Franca

When I joined the Lingua Franca blog in 2012, I felt sure I would run out of things to write about long before the venue would disappear. I never knew how I landed on the radar squarely enough to be invited to be a blogger—and I was reluctant to ask for fear the powers that be might suddenly realize that I, in fact, had no blogging credentials to speak of (or not to speak of—they just didn’t exist). But I was excited about the chance to write for a broader audience about language, from a ...